Akiko Hashimoto is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh and the author of The Gift of Generations: Japanese and American Perspectives on Aging and the Social Contract. John W. Traphagan is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin and the coeditor (with John Knight) of Demographic Change and the Family in Japan's Aging Society, also published by SUNY Press.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Changing Japanese FamiliesAkiko Hashimoto, University of PittsburghJohn W. Traphagan, University of Texas at Austin Imagined Families 2. Blondie, Sazae, and Their Storied Successors: Japanese Families in Newspaper ComicsAkiko Hashimoto, University of Pittsburgh 3. From Spiritual Fathers to 'Tokyo Godfathers: Depictions of the Family in Japanese AnimationSusan J. Napier, Tufts University 4. Agony of Eldercare: Two Japanese Women Directors Study an Age-Old ProblemKeiko I. McDonald, University of Pittsburgh Lived Families 5. Mass Arrests, Sensational Crimes and Stranded Children: Three Crises for Japanese New Left Activists’ FamiliesPatricia G. Steinhoff, University of Hawai’i 6. Is "Japan" Still a Big Family? Nationality and Citizenship at the Edge of the Japanese ArchipelagoMariko Asano Tamanoi, UCLA 7. Somone’s Old, Something’s New, Someone’s Borrowed, Someone's Blue: Changing Elder Care at the Turn of the 21st CenturySusan Orpett Long, John Carroll University ReferencesContributorsIndex

"…Hashimoto and Traphagan's collection of essays is timely and welcome … Imagined Families, Lived Families could be utilized as a textbook in classes on postwar Japan, particularly in courses focusing on society or culture." — Journal of Japanese Studies"…the high quality of the essays and the presentation of original research not previously published makes this volume valuable." — Pacific Affairs"Japanese family patterns are undergoing explosive change. This volume vividly showcases some of the central features and exceptional cases of this domestic transformation. It is important reading for Japan studies and for a family sociology of late modernity." — William W. Kelly, editor of Fanning the Flames: Fans and Consumer Culture in Contemporary Japan

Akiko Hashimoto is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh and the author of The Gift of Generations: Japanese and American Perspectives on Aging and the Social Contract. John W. Traphagan is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin and the coeditor (with John Knight) of Demographic Change and the Family in Japan's Aging Society, also published by SUNY Press.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Changing Japanese FamiliesAkiko Hashimoto, University of PittsburghJohn W. Traphagan, University of Texas at Austin Imagined Families 2. Blondie, Sazae, and Their Storied Successors: Japanese Families in Newspaper ComicsAkiko Hashimoto, University of Pittsburgh 3. From Spiritual Fathers to 'Tokyo Godfathers: Depictions of the Family in Japanese AnimationSusan J. Napier, Tufts University 4. Agony of Eldercare: Two Japanese Women Directors Study an Age-Old ProblemKeiko I. McDonald, University of Pittsburgh Lived Families 5. Mass Arrests, Sensational Crimes and Stranded Children: Three Crises for Japanese New Left Activists’ FamiliesPatricia G. Steinhoff, University of Hawai’i 6. Is "Japan" Still a Big Family? Nationality and Citizenship at the Edge of the Japanese ArchipelagoMariko Asano Tamanoi, UCLA 7. Somone’s Old, Something’s New, Someone’s Borrowed, Someone's Blue: Changing Elder Care at the Turn of the 21st CenturySusan Orpett Long, John Carroll University ReferencesContributorsIndex

"…Hashimoto and Traphagan's collection of essays is timely and welcome … Imagined Families, Lived Families could be utilized as a textbook in classes on postwar Japan, particularly in courses focusing on society or culture." — Journal of Japanese Studies"…the high quality of the essays and the presentation of original research not previously published makes this volume valuable." — Pacific Affairs"Japanese family patterns are undergoing explosive change. This volume vividly showcases some of the central features and exceptional cases of this domestic transformation. It is important reading for Japan studies and for a family sociology of late modernity." — William W. Kelly, editor of Fanning the Flames: Fans and Consumer Culture in Contemporary Japan

Akiko Hashimoto is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh and the author of The Gift of Generations: Japanese and American Perspectives on Aging and the Social Contract. John W. Traphagan is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin and the coeditor (with John Knight) of Demographic Change and the Family in Japan's Aging Society, also published by SUNY Press.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Changing Japanese FamiliesAkiko Hashimoto, University of PittsburghJohn W. Traphagan, University of Texas at Austin Imagined Families 2. Blondie, Sazae, and Their Storied Successors: Japanese Families in Newspaper ComicsAkiko Hashimoto, University of Pittsburgh 3. From Spiritual Fathers to 'Tokyo Godfathers: Depictions of the Family in Japanese AnimationSusan J. Napier, Tufts University 4. Agony of Eldercare: Two Japanese Women Directors Study an Age-Old ProblemKeiko I. McDonald, University of Pittsburgh Lived Families 5. Mass Arrests, Sensational Crimes and Stranded Children: Three Crises for Japanese New Left Activists’ FamiliesPatricia G. Steinhoff, University of Hawai’i 6. Is "Japan" Still a Big Family? Nationality and Citizenship at the Edge of the Japanese ArchipelagoMariko Asano Tamanoi, UCLA 7. Somone’s Old, Something’s New, Someone’s Borrowed, Someone's Blue: Changing Elder Care at the Turn of the 21st CenturySusan Orpett Long, John Carroll University ReferencesContributorsIndex

"…Hashimoto and Traphagan's collection of essays is timely and welcome … Imagined Families, Lived Families could be utilized as a textbook in classes on postwar Japan, particularly in courses focusing on society or culture." — Journal of Japanese Studies"…the high quality of the essays and the presentation of original research not previously published makes this volume valuable." — Pacific Affairs"Japanese family patterns are undergoing explosive change. This volume vividly showcases some of the central features and exceptional cases of this domestic transformation. It is important reading for Japan studies and for a family sociology of late modernity." — William W. Kelly, editor of Fanning the Flames: Fans and Consumer Culture in Contemporary Japan